Ahh I thought along similar lines. In fact DOS has a
file comparing utility ? filecompare ? I guess that
can be used if one has windows and is installing FC.
Anyone remembers the exact name of that DOS utility?
Thank you.
--- Paul Smith <phhs80(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/2/07, Paul Smith <phhs80(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > When I do : -
> > >
> > > sha1sum <iso file>
> > >
> > > this will output the checksum , do I have to
verify by
> > > looking at the huge number that it is correct
or is
> > > there a simple utilty which can compare the 2
> > > checksums ?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Alex.
> > My trick is to copy the checksums into a text
file, highlight one of
> > them and use find to see if it finds the next
one.
>
> I have written a tiny script to do that.
Basically, it compares two
> strings. I will post it to you later on, as I have
not it with me now.
My simple script has the following code:
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$1" = "$2" ] ; then echo "same" ; else echo
"different" ; fi
Paul
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